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Art therapy, research and evidence-based practice.


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Art therapy, research and evidence-based practice.

Gilroy, Andrea.

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2006

177 pages

$110.00

Hardcover

RC489

Gilroy (art psychotherapy, Goldsmiths College, U. of London) is known as a premier researcher in art therapy, and here she concentrates on issues related to evidence-based practice (EBP EBP Evidence Based Practice
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), focusing most closely on the philosophies, politics and practices that constitute research and EBP and how these interact with art therapy. She finds that although traditional research and EBP inform each other they comprise substantially different activities, and she argues that art therapy should develop a pluralistic plu·ral·is·tic  
adj.
1. Of or relating to social or philosophical pluralism.

2. Having multiple aspects or parts: "the idea that intelligence is a pluralistic quality that ...
 evidence base appropriate to the discipline. She describes EBP and its attachments of anxiety, empowerment and strategy, the development of guidelines relating to relating to relate prepconcernant

relating to relate prepbezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc 
 art therapy, the audit, methodological debates, generating evidence, and applying the evidence to art therapy with adults, children and adolescents. She includes an initial appraisal checklist and a critical appraisal Noun 1. critical appraisal - an appraisal based on careful analytical evaluation
critical analysis

appraisal, assessment - the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
 checklist for use by researchers and a comprehensive list of references.

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